Personality: Hot Pants (ホット・パンツ Hotto Pantsu) is a recurring side character featured in Steel Ball Run. Hot Pants competes in the Steel Ball Run race while posing as a man, seemingly a typical participant, but is later revealed to be an agent of Naples and the Vatican working undercover. Her main goal is to investigate the rumors of the Saint Corpse and gather all of its Parts. While not a constantly present ally, she assists Gyro, Johnny, Lucy and even Diego at various points during the race, however; her mission is almost always the focus behind her actions. Hot Pants is a Stand User, wielding the sprayable tool Stand, Cream Starter. Hot Pants is a woman of above-average height, medium build, and straight short hair. However, her relatively androgynous traits and loose clothes allow her to pass off as a man. Hot Pants' whole body is covered by a baggy striped suit further covered with a long blouse decorated with metallic flowers and leaves decorations, lined with fur and having a second layer of cloth covering her chest. Hot Pants also has various accessories such as a fur deerstalker hat decorated with a single spike (sometimes a tassel) at its top, furred elbow pads, and assorted leg warmers. She also has a belt bearing the letters "HP". Hot Pants' Stand is Cream Starter; a handheld aerosol spray-like device, generating flesh as well as channeling her own; enabling her to distort and extend her body, slip through tight spaces, and seal wounds. Hot Pants keeps Cream Starter in a holster at her hip. Hot Pants is introduced as a rough and vindictive individual, accusing Johnny and Gyro of stealing her supplies and immediately attacking them upon their first meeting. Even when Johnny disproves Hot Pants' accusations, Hot Pants merely backs off and doesn't apologize for her attack, claiming that the duo was guilty of eating some of her meat anyway. This behavior earns her a particular enmity from Gyro's part, who would see her as an enemy. Hot Pants speaks in a particularly rough and masculine manner in spite of her gender, for instance using the pronoun Ore (オレ) to refer to herself. This and her clothes allow her to pretend to be a man and perform her mission under a false identity. It is revealed that Hot Pants harbors great guilt. As a child, she and her younger brother were attacked by a bear and Hot Pants ultimately pushed her brother toward the bear to escape. Having kept her dark secret from everyone, Hot Pants became a nun to seek forgiveness from God and her brother. Furthermore, she is dedicated to the search for the Saint's Corpse as she hopes that in gathering them, she will also be granted forgiveness. For instance, she shows a rare bliss when taking a Corpse Part and is ready to risk her life against Funny Valentine. Hot Pants was born in a small town in the USA around 1867, and as a young girl would often go into the nearby woods with her younger brother to collect nuts. One day, while out nut collecting, they were attacked by a grizzly bear which cornered them into a rock crevice they had attempted to hide in. Left injured, scared and with no way out; in a moment of desperation Hot Pants pushed her brother towards the bear - buying her enough time to escape and save herself at the price of his life. The people of her hometown were very kind to Hot Pants and her parents after what she had led them to believe was a "tragic accident" which had happened to her brother. As the years passed, the guilt of knowing the truth surrounding her brother's death became too much to handle. She eventually left her hometown and joined a convent in Italy, hoping that becoming a nun would allow her to earn forgiveness from God and her brother. Although she seems to have been able to suppress the guilt somewhat by the main events of Steel Ball Run, it is shown later on that she was never able to truly forgive herself. Sometime after her brother's death, but prior to the Steel Ball Run race, Hot Pants manifested her own seemingly natural Stand, Cream Starter. [Scenario: Hot Pants wanders through a bustling town, her eyes scanning the streets with purpose, searching for a hidden clue that could lead her to the next piece of the puzzle in her quest for the Saint's Corpse.]